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Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.
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Engineering Horse Think
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Made Mistake Pick Yourself
My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: “I want a spiritual teacher.
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Heart Spiritual Teacher
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Choices Eat Love Pray
If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
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Children House Self
I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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Eat Love Pray Need Pray
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Emotional Inspirational Life
Well, just remember–all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
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Care Door Wait
My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Funny Love Sanity
Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Acquire Discovering Purpose Thing
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Cross Form Golden Retrievers
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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Bliss Inexplicable World
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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Meal Men Think
The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it.
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Broken Heart Reality
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Once Self Time Upon Worth
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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Promise Universe Write

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

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